Temporary cattle-stall.



No. 892,381. PATENTED JUNE so, 1908. J. J. MoHUGH & A. WADMAN.

' TEMPORARY CATTLE STALL.

APPLICATION FILED HAB.15.1907.

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PATENTED JUNE 30. 1908.

J. J MGHUGH & A WADMAN TEMPORARY G AT'I LB STALL.

APPLIOATION FILED MARJB, 1907. v

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN JOSEPH MCHUGH, OF CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA, AND ALBERT WADMAN, OFLEWES,

ENGLAND.

TEMPORARY CATTLE-STALL. 1 i

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN JOSEPH Mc- HUGH, of Calgary, Alberta, in theDominion of Canada, and ALBERT ADMAN, of Gibraltar, Firle, Lewes, in thecounty of Sussex, England, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Temporary Cattle- Stalls, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention more particularly relates to improvements in theconstruction and arrangement of temporary cattle stalls for cattle boatsand vessels used for the transport of cattle, but is likewise applicableto cattle cars and to temporary and permanent lairage at docks, stockyards, exhibitions and the like, and it consists in the novelconstruction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the general arrangement ofsuch cattle stalls, and Fig. 2 is a front view, partly in section, drawnto a larger scale and showing certain of the uprights and theirsupports.

1, 2 indicate the removable parallel uprights, 3 indicates the lowersill wherein suitable socket holes 3 are formed into which the lowerends of such uprights are loosely stepped, while in order to allow ofthe ready adjustment of the distance between the uprights such socketholes may be enlarged and may have a series of perforations formedtherein as indicated at 3 so that the position of the uprights 2 may bevaried as desired. The lower ends of such uprights 2 are preferablysecured by pivot pins 2 as shown in Fig. 2. 4 is the recessed overheadsill wherein the upper ends of the uprights 1, 2 are inserted. Suchupper sill is bolted or otherwise secured to the deck joists of thevessel, so as not to encumber it with additional stanchions or otherfixtures, but when the stalls are erected in places where there are noavailable supports for the overhead sills, suitable stanchions or otherequivalent permanent or temporary supports are provided. The upright 2engages with a slotted recess 20 in the upper sill 4, wherein it islocked by a hinged catch 5 or its equivalent, by raising which, suchupright may be moved so as to allow of the passage of the animals headas indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, after which said upright isreplaced and locked in position by the catch 5, which latter may besecured if de- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 15, 1907 Patented June 30, 1908.

Serial No. 362,585.

sired by a removable pin 6, as illustrated at Fig. 2. The removableupright 1 enga es in apertures 21 in the sill 3 and 22 in the sill et,as indicated, and both the uprights 1 and 2 may be removed from theirsockets by raising and drawing them aside.

The stalls are divided off at the back into pairs as shown, by removablestanchions 7, which are stepped in sockets 8, and are held in positionby an overhead sill 9, which is bolted to the deck joists or otherwisesupported in a similar manner to the overhead sill 4. The said uprights7 are arranged between each alternate pair of the uprights 2 and 3 andout of line with them, so that the cattle are divided into pairs, andthe hindquarters of each pair of cattle are ke t in position by two ofthe u rights 7. T 1e stalls are preferably arrangec in opposite rows oneither side of a central walk 10, along which suitable removablewatering and feeding troughs 11 are arranged. Sullicient space is leftbehind the removable stanchions 7 to form gangways 13, throu h which thecattle can be driven into the stallls, and in order to prevent thecattle escaping through the intervening spaces, between the stalls atemporary barrier 14 (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2) is lashed orotherwise secured to the stall uprights 1 which barrier is removed whenthe cattle are secured.

What we claim as our invention is 2- 1. The combination, with astationary lower sill provided with sockets 21 and 3, and a stationaryupper sill provided with sockets 22 and 20, of a removable u right 1resting in the socket 21 and slidab e vertically in it and in the socket22, a removable upright 2 pivoted in the socket 3 and mova le laterallyof the upright 1 in the socket 20, and a catch which normally preventsthe upright 1 from sliding in the said socket 20.

2. The combination, with a stationary lower sill provided with sockets21 and 3, of a stationary upper sill provided with sockets 22 and 20, ofa removable upright 1 resting in the socket 21 and slidable verticallyin it and in the socket 22 a removable u right 2 pivoted in the socket 3and movab e later ally of the upright 1 in the socket 20, means for su)porting the pivot of the said 11 )right 2 in di'fl'erent positions soas to regulate the distance between the lower parts of the uprights 1and 2, and a catch which normal from sliding in the alternate air of thesaid uprights 1 and 2 and out o line With them, said uprights beingplaced in engagement With certain other of the-said sockets and adaptedto retain the hindquarters of the animals in position.

JOHN JOSEPH MGHUGH. ALBERT WVADMAN.

upright being placed in engagement With eer- Witnesses:

tain of the said sockets, and a series of re- 10 movable uprlghts 7arranged between each AUGT. SHIRLEY BoWnEN, RENE BOWDEN.

